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EF1 tornado in Charlotte County, Florida

Tornado April 30, 2023 · Charlotte County, Florida

EF1

Rating

4.6 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

NWS determined that a high end EF-1 tornado with 110 mph winds occurred in eastern Charlotte County, destroying a metal barn and snapping several telephone poles along with overturning a small vehicle trailer and pushing it into a tree.

The wider storm

A developing early morning squall line ahead of a cold front moving across the Eastern Gulf of Mexico produced an EF-1 tornado in Charlotte County along with few additional 50+ mph sub-severe wind gusts across southwest Florida.

Began near Bermont (26.9200, -81.6300).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1085476. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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